ThoughtSpot

Score8.2 out of 10

202 Reviews and Ratings

What is ThoughtSpot?

ThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

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Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screen

Screenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insights

Screenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queries

Screenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real time

Screenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics

Screenshot of AI-guided suggestion, to modify existing answers, ask the next question, and uncover deeper insights

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Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screen

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Category average: 8.5
Report Delivery Scheduling
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
Category average: 8.4
Drill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Category average: 8.4

REST API
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
Category average: 8.1
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
Category average: 7.9
Javascript API
A Javascript API is a type of API
Category average: 8.3

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Sr Data Analyst at Apple (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ThoughtSpot for reporting, to generate insights, ask questions, and to deliver dashboards/reporting to our business teams

Pros

Live Connection
Natural Language
Performance

Cons

Setting up data connections
More intuitive interface
Stronger community

Return on Investment

Sped up time to insight
Faster to decision making
better performance
Cost savings
Time savings

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Microsoft Power BI

Verified User

Director (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using ThoughtSpot as our main BI and self-service analytics tool as well as experimenting with reports embedding

Pros

Empower and enable self-service analytics
ease of use
customer-centric sales approach and post sales support

Cons

robustness of visualizations and customization options
Missing central semantic layer
Not enough capabilities around managing global data models and metrics definitions
More robust AI assisted data model management

Return on Investment

Reduction in time to insight from weeks to minutes
80% monthly active users

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Preset and Looker

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a client who has a lot of entities, assets, and loans, so there is a lot of data to be managed. ThoughtSpot gives all the analysis for it in bar graphs and charts. It helps our team to quickly analyze large datasets without needing complex SQL queries. It is easy to get insights of it. We use ThoughtSpot across different departments dashboards,ad-hoc analysis and providing a monthly view of all the transactions to the client.

Pros

It allow users to type simple search queries and instantly get charts,tables, or insights without any technical skills.
dashboards update in real time and make it easy to drill down in detail by just clicking on data points.
SpotiQ feature automatically finds trends,anomalies and key drivers in the data that may be missed.

Cons

While search is great for simple questions but handling complex calcultions and joins can be hard and requires backend work.
Dashboards and searches can be very slow when working with large databases.
Visualization and dashboard customisation are limited as comared with different BI tools.

Return on Investment

Faster decisoin making - Business teams doesnt need to wait for the reports from data team ,they can get answers instantly.
Higher productivity - Analysts spend less time on creating manual reports and more time on insights.it reduces 2 weeks of manual work.
Better business outcomes - with quick and easy access to KPIs and trends teams acan act faster on sales , revenue and operations data.

Usability

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Jira Work Management

Verified User

Vice-President in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need it to visualize our data across the entire company as well as a reporting/visualization that we whitelabel for our customers. It solves not just getting an understanding of our and our clients' revenue/claims/resolution rates, but also gives us very interesting trends and insights in our data that we would have otherwise overlooked.

Pros

Reporting
Data Visualization
Trends and Insights
Liveboards and one-stop-shop dashboarding

Cons

Faster implementation (even though it's easy enough as it is)
More API's for individual features
Faster performance

Return on Investment

Swapped out previous reporting solution and re-assigned resources
Reduced TTL from 3 months to 1 week
Reduction in Azure spend
Excited clients and customers

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, Jira Software, Aha! Roadmaps

Verified User

Strategist in Marketing (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to build dashboards to track various metrics for our campaigns like CTR, campaign name and other engagement metrics.

Pros

It helps track combined data
It looks into details of what campaigns are performing well
It helps segregate into days of week for the campaign that's performing well

Cons

If it could be integrated with Braze to track tests
Using Braze tests and directly getting results in ThoughtSpot

Return on Investment

ThoughtSpot has provided a seamless way to provide data
It has helped us in making data-driven decisions

Usability

Other Software Used

Braze, Amazon Web Services

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Report Delivery Scheduling

Drill-down analysis

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REST API

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Javascript API

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